How Do You Troubleshoot the Error “Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘botocore==2.0.0dev11’)”?

Problem scenario
You try to install the AWS CLI version 2.x

You run this command:

$ sudo python3 setup.py install

You get a message like this:

Processing dependencies for awscli==2.0.7
Searching for botocore==2.0.0dev11
Reading https://pypi.org/simple/botocore/
No local packages or working download links found for botocore==2.0.0dev11
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('botocore==2.0.0dev11')

What should you do?

Possible solution (or workaround)
Abort. Try installing AWS CLI 1.x. You can use these directions as a guide.

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